Oui, Miss Dior Chérie.

I just saw this clip for the first time in too long. Oh, I used to watch this over and over and over again! In less than a minute my love affair with Paris has been reignited and I want to be more than ever this beautiful girl, running around beautiful Paris, eating sweets and smelling like a flower bed. Nothing like a little French fantasy before bedtime mid-week!

Blue crush.

    

Earrings: Colette 

Nail polish: Sportsgirl

Mascara: Australis

This post started with me typically not checking the colour of mascara that I was purchasing - just trusting that because it was in a black tube that the colour would be black. Just another blonde moment on my behalf. I realised it was blue when I got to the end of my make-up routine before going out for the night. My first thought of blue mascara was a 90s nightmare. Something I would have worn with blue glitter eye-shadow to a school disco in grade seven. Not as a 21 year old heading out with her girlfriends for the night. It has been sitting in my dresser draw ever since. The other day I found it in there and thought for the fun of it I would put it on and see how bad it actually was... Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised! Not as tacky as I thought! It's like it gave my eyes hint of freshness and you could hardly notice, except for the tips, that it was in fact blue mascara. To embrace the blue mascara, and put my spin on this 'mermaid-style' trend floating around spring, I have paired it with these chunky earrings  my favourite sea blue nail polish from Sportsgirl and simple make-up including a nude lip (not to over do it). 

Is there anything you have been pleasantly surprised from lately?

Retro flower.

Dress + Bag: vintage

Shoes: ASOS (sold out)

Headband: Market find

Long time, no blogging. I feel like it has been ages since I have done something new for here. Though I must explain that the reason for my lack of fresh posting lately is because I booked a two week holiday to Japan at the end of the year! Probably the most expensive time to go there but when I can say I rang in 2013 in Osaka it will all be worth it. Plus everything else there is to look forward to like the food, sight seeing, shopping and fulfilling my childhood dream of visiting Disneyland. I don't really mind that it's not the American Disneyland, it will still be Disney to me! Though I digress. It's mostly because I am on a strict savings budget and haven't bought anything new, and by anything new, I mean nothing, zip, zilch, zero, in over four weeks. That is a record for me! And I feel that since I haven't bought anything new then I have nothing to show off therefore nothing to blog about. Which is kind of silly because if it was going to be like that then this whole blogging experience would get a bit expensive for me. I am good at being thrifty when it comes to clothes and shopping. I found the above dress for $7.50 in a closing down retro shop, the clutch for a couple of dollars at an op-shop and the shoes on sale on ASOS for $15. For the next three months I will be doing my absolute best to get by on what I already have in my closet and using a little imagination. And keeping in mind that my holiday to Japan will totally be worth it!

Nana's House.

This is not a me-wearing-clothes-trying-to-make-them-look-good-and-not-be-awkward post. It's about a little getaway that I went on a few weekends ago. I think it's really healthy to just take time out from work, you routine, social commitments (eg: catch ups, partying etc.) to just escape to a different surrounding and have some 'you' time. In my case, whenever I just need to get out of the Gold Coast, I head an hour and a bit inland to my Nana's house in Beaudesert. To me it is basically in the middle of nowhere and for a weekend I absolutely love it! She has a little house on five acres which is filled with all of our family memorabilia and cute little knick-nacks that she collects. The "farm" as we call it has a vege patch, fruit trees, a dam, chickens, old tin sheds and lots of pretty flowers. Oh and a black and white cat who when he puts his two front paws together, his patch makes a love heart. Just couldn't get him to sit still long enough to get a photo! I see a lot of myself in my Nana: homeliness, routine, love of clothes, cooking and ornaments, bargain hunting, her humor and her kindness. I just wanted to share something a little different and write about something dear to me. Hope you all have a little special place like this!

PS. Her lemon butter tarts are amazing!